Quick Take: Google is moving fast in its education initiatives, Google Apps will now back, Google education LMS(Learning Management System) initiative, with “Moodlerooms”, which will bring “Moodle and Google Apps together with a single sign-in”
Google Enterprise Blog: LMS and Google Apps – First Comes Love…
Quick Take: Facebook has announced new measures to counter hacking accounts, and spam messages. In the new measure, the impacted people will have a new verification process to accertain that they are true owners of the account.
Quick take: As per June’09 Comscore US search engine rankings, Microsoft sites have moved from 8% to 8.4%, the 0.4% increase dredited to Bing. Google share stays consistent, but overall queries has gone down by 2% from 9.3 to 9.1 billion.
Quick Take: in two blog releases today, Google is seeking ideas on broadband and has allowed scanned medical reports to Google Health “for safe storage and easy sharing”
Google Blog Links: Plan ahead: Document and share your health wishes with Google Health; Submit your ideas to change the face of broadband
Quick Take: As reported earlier, Bing has launched “Bingtweets”, which will show selected tweets in search results, in real time. The have also laucnhed a new web portal by the name www.bingtweets.com.
Bing Blog: bingtweets debuts
Quick Take: Google’s Friend connect gadget can support 47 new language for its app users. The new connect claims “Once selected, most Google-created gadgets and any translated third party gadgets on your site will automatically render in that language. This ensures that the Friend Connect gadgets are better integrated into your site and easily understood by your visitors.”
Google Social web Blog: Friend Connect goes îñţérñåţîöñåļ
Quick Take: As per Nielson Online’s press release on June’09 audit data for US net users, Faceleads the timespent at 4.39 hrs/person in the month, with 87 million unique visitors. Google leads in Unique visitors with 155 million followed by microsoft sites with 139 million.
Quick Take: Jetpack 0.3 has been released from Mozilla Labs, which required firefox 3.5, this new version can “perform an action on or upon a selection, for example, look up a selected word on Wikipedia.”, in addition it has a new slide bar.
Mozilla labs blog: Jetpack 0.3 Released
Quick Take: Microsoft Office 2010, is out for testing for some seleted testers, the reports say that the version will allow online creation of documents and files for free.
AP: Microsoft opens early testing on Office 2010; PC world: Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown
Quick Take: Google has announced its Twitter accounts on its blog, and conveyed that the accounts will be updated time to time, and maybe followed by users. Its one internet service where Google has accepted they are nowhere.
Google Blog: Google accounts on Twitter
